 As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass,...  The Retrospective Review - Page 2491821Full view - About this book
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1853 - 508 pages
...fettered and controlled his mind ; and then quoted, with prodigious effect, the lines from Milton — "As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing, on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...Alcinous :' see the Odyssey. — 3 'Sapient king:' Solomon. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...king3 Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admir'd, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...is at this season that wo can peculiarly feel the beauty of these charming lines of Milton : — As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...slough Plunging, and half despairing of escape, If chance2 at length he find a green-sward smooth 1 As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick, and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each... | |
 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - 294 pages
...rather less enchanting ; and I shall probably quit my squalid abode with much the same sensations, " As one who long in populous city pent, " Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, " Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe " Among the pleasant villages and farms " Adjoin'd, from... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 314 pages
...the fields at the proper season ; even as Maister Milton hath elegantly 'set forth the same. As one long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin' d, from each... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, the person more. As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired, the person more. As one whp, long in populous city pent, ** Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1855 - 434 pages
...accounted for. On this occasion I could not but reflect upon a beautiful simile in Milton : As one who lone in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd. from each... | |
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